The Atacama is the world’s driest ... Rooms at Terrantai Lodge from £133, terrantai.com The Moon Valley provides the region’s most picture-perfect desert snapshot – there are golden dunes ...

Stretching across northern Chile and southern Peru, the Atacama is the driest non-polar desert on the planet ... spots include Valle de la Lunar (Moon Valley), where Nasa's rovers are tested ...

Thousands of foreign travellers visit the geysers, salt flats, oases and volcanoes of north Chile's Atacama Desert. It is located on the Pacific coast of South America, in the north of the country.